小学校のときから、酸性・アルカリ性という性質をリトマス紙で調べたりしてきていますね。

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小学校のときから、酸性・あるかり性という性質をりとます紙で調べたりしてきていますね。

English Translation

Since primary school we've been checking for the qualities known as acidity and alkalinity with litmus paper.

Furigana

小学校(しょうがっこう)のときから、酸性(さんせい)・アルカリ性(せい)という性質(せいしつ)をリトマス紙(し)で調(しら)べたりしてきていますね。

Romanji

Shōgakkō no toki kara, sansei arukarisei toiu seishitsu o ritomasushi de shirabe tari shitekiteimasu ne.

Words

小学校 (しょうがっこう)

primary school; elementary school; grade school

の (の)

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

とき (とき)

regular (stops at every station) Jouetsu-line Shinkansen

から (から)

from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part); through (e.g. window, vestibule); after; since

酸性 (さんせい)

acidity; acidic

・ (なかぽち)

middle dot (typographical symbol used between parallel terms, names in katakana, etc.); full-stop mark at mid-character height; interpoint (interword separation)

アルカリ性 (アルカリせい)

alkalinity; alkaline

と言う (という、とゆう)

called; named; as many as; as much as; all X; every X

性質 (せいしつ)

nature; property; disposition

を (を)

indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

リトマス紙 (リトマスし)

litmus paper

で (で、にて)

indicates location of action; at; in; indicates time of action; indicates means of action; cause of effect; by; and then; so; indicates continuing action; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.

調べる (しらべる)

to examine; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study; to inquire; to search

たり (たり、だり)

-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); (used adverbially) doing such things as...; expresses a command; (after a noun) to be; indicates completion or continuation of an action

為る (する)

to do; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into); to serve as; to act as; to work as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.); to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as; to decide on; to choose; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.); to be (in a state, condition, etc.); to be worth; to cost; to pass (of time); to elapse; verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"); creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"); to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to

ね (ね、ねえ)

indicates emphasis, agreement, request for confirmation, etc.; is it so; hey; come on; listen; not